Re: Q & A work?

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

[CCing you Dean since I'm not sure you are subscribed]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Dean Loros <debianmainuser@gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to help with testing. Ideas on where I could get involved with Q & A?

In Debian we tend to focus on automated testing since it is more
scalable. We have automated source and binary package checking
(lintian), automated build testing (thanks to lucas), automated
build-time testing (thanks to upstream test suites), automated package
install testing (piuparts), automated system install testing
(BabelBox), automated font linting (pkg-fonts review) and now
automated source code analysis (daca).

One thing we currently lack on the automated testing front is
automated post-install testing of individual packages and I think also
automated post-install system testing.

lintian: http://lintian.debian.org/
piuparts: http://piuparts.debian.org/
BabelBox: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/BabelBox
pkg-fonts review: http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/review/
daca: http://qa.debian.org/daca/

On the side of non-automated testing we seem to not have any
organised. If you would like to start organising regular Debian
testing days, that would be great. Fedora has test days too. I planned
to organise something similar for the Debian games team but never got
around to it.

fedora: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days
games parties: http://wiki.debian.org/Games/Parties

> I was/am involved with Gnome-Shell for the last couple of years & know most of the
> stack.....

I'm sure the Debian GNOME team could use some help processing incoming
bugreports and triaging old bug reports.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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